Sec. 66-32Membership

(a) The planning advisory commission shall consist of seven members. The Board of Commissioners of Turner County shall select three members; the City Council of the City of Ashburn shall select two members; the City Council of the City of Sycamore shall select one member; the City Council of the City of Rebecca shall select one member. The appointed member shall serve for four-year terms. Provided however, the terms of members selected by the Board of Commissioners of Turner County and the City Council of the City of Ashburn shall be staggered terms and the initial appointment to the planning advisory commission upon the passage of the ordinance from which this section is derived by said county and cities shall be for such initial periods of time so as to provide for staggered four-year terms.

(b) Resignations from the planning advisory commission must be submitted in writing to the secretary of the planning advisory commission and to the unit of government that appointed each member. Each unit of government shall have the authority to remove any member appointed to the planning advisory commission by that particular member of government for cause at any time upon giving such member ten days written notice and following a vote of the governmental unit to remove such member from a public meeting including but not limited to:

(1) Failure to attend three consecutive regular voting meetings of the planning advisory commission;

(2) Failure to attend three or more meetings of the planning advisory commission in a calendar year;

(3) Failure to maintain permanent residence within the jurisdiction of the unit of the government that adopted such member; or

(4) Violation of planning advisory commission by-laws, rules or procedures.

Vacancies in the membership caused by resignation or removal shall be filled by the unit of government for the remainder of the unexpired term created by the vacancy.

(c) All members shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred in connection with their official duties.

History: (Ord. No. 97-01, § 1, 5-1-1997; Ord. No. 2021-6, § 1, 7-1-2021)